Comments on: When White Standards are Still the Measure of Asian Beauty http://www.8asians.com/2007/04/13/when-white-standards-are-still-the-measure-of-asian-beauty/ A blog for Asian Americans Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:50:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Weekend ED Series: Why Is Recovery So Bloody Hard?! | Burp and Slurp http://www.8asians.com/2007/04/13/when-white-standards-are-still-the-measure-of-asian-beauty/comment-page-1/#comment-156256 Weekend ED Series: Why Is Recovery So Bloody Hard?! | Burp and Slurp Sun, 07 Aug 2011 04:59:28 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/2007/04/13/when-white-standards-are-still-the-measure-of-asian-beauty/#comment-156256 [...] know I could sleep so much! Sometime my eyes get puffy, but at times I like it because it makes my sang-ka-pul (double eyelid) more prominent. [...] [...] know I could sleep so much! Sometime my eyes get puffy, but at times I like it because it makes my sang-ka-pul (double eyelid) more prominent. [...]

]]> By: sannis http://www.8asians.com/2007/04/13/when-white-standards-are-still-the-measure-of-asian-beauty/comment-page-1/#comment-153441 sannis Fri, 17 Jun 2011 04:45:01 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/2007/04/13/when-white-standards-are-still-the-measure-of-asian-beauty/#comment-153441 @Ed @jjiang1989 Whites use makeup to make their eyes more almond-shaped. They get cheek implants to make their faces fuller and get high cheekbones. They shave their nose bridge to make them straighter and get the tip reduced to make it less pointed. They get injections to make their lips fuller. When you see this doesn't it look like Europeans are wanting to get closer to an Asian look while still being European? After all, Asians that get nose and eye surgery don't end up looking white. But it's become that Europeans get surgery to look more beautiful, but others who get surgery want to look more white. It's really all the same. @Ed @jjiang1989 Whites use makeup to make their eyes more almond-shaped. They get cheek implants to make their faces fuller and get high cheekbones. They shave their nose bridge to make them straighter and get the tip reduced to make it less pointed. They get injections to make their lips fuller. When you see this doesn’t it look like Europeans are wanting to get closer to an Asian look while still being European? After all, Asians that get nose and eye surgery don’t end up looking white. But it’s become that Europeans get surgery to look more beautiful, but others who get surgery want to look more white. It’s really all the same.

]]> By: sannis http://www.8asians.com/2007/04/13/when-white-standards-are-still-the-measure-of-asian-beauty/comment-page-1/#comment-153440 sannis Fri, 17 Jun 2011 04:37:48 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/2007/04/13/when-white-standards-are-still-the-measure-of-asian-beauty/#comment-153440 It's strange though, these "White standards of beauty" some Asian women conform to are actually more fitting for standards whites place on other whites. Actually, I find that Western people actually prefer Asians to have a more traditional Asian beauty (at least in their personal lives if not in the mass media) while they're not too fond of the massive round eyes, thin face, and high bridge noses you see in teen mags and on idols, unless they're really into Asian pop culture. And they love the yellow gold skin that's so different from the pink/red skin of the western Europeans. Look at the top Asian models of the western fashion world today: Du Juan, Hye Park, Liu Wen. And Westerners loves Zhang Ziyi and Lucy Liu. They are all beautiful, but also very undeniably Asian.<br/><br/> <br/><br/>And yes, the "beautiful Asian woman" has a taller nose than average, a little bit bigger eyes than average, a more oval face than average, but doesn't the "beautiful European woman" have a more streamlined nose than average? Higher cheekbones than average? More almond-shaped eyes than average? Everyone wants to meet in the middle, it seems. It’s strange though, these “White standards of beauty” some Asian women conform to are actually more fitting for standards whites place on other whites. Actually, I find that Western people actually prefer Asians to have a more traditional Asian beauty (at least in their personal lives if not in the mass media) while they’re not too fond of the massive round eyes, thin face, and high bridge noses you see in teen mags and on idols, unless they’re really into Asian pop culture. And they love the yellow gold skin that’s so different from the pink/red skin of the western Europeans. Look at the top Asian models of the western fashion world today: Du Juan, Hye Park, Liu Wen. And Westerners loves Zhang Ziyi and Lucy Liu. They are all beautiful, but also very undeniably Asian.

And yes, the “beautiful Asian woman” has a taller nose than average, a little bit bigger eyes than average, a more oval face than average, but doesn’t the “beautiful European woman” have a more streamlined nose than average? Higher cheekbones than average? More almond-shaped eyes than average? Everyone wants to meet in the middle, it seems.

]]> By: Ed http://www.8asians.com/2007/04/13/when-white-standards-are-still-the-measure-of-asian-beauty/comment-page-1/#comment-151209 Ed Sun, 15 May 2011 20:46:28 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/2007/04/13/when-white-standards-are-still-the-measure-of-asian-beauty/#comment-151209 @jjiang1989 But why isn't there the equivalent number of operations (or any that I've heard of) by caucasians to widen ones nose, or to make ones eyes more slanty or requests by younger people to get collagen injections to make their face appear rounder? Asians do not have those features naturally because, well we're asian. Tyra Banks has said in public that straightening and lightening her hair essentially made her more marketable as a black women to the white American public. It's something she felt she had to do to succeed.<br/><br/>Let's not discount Akrypti's message by using the whole exotic and rare argument. There is a clear and distinct, almost rampant rejection of natural Asian beauty and attractiveness by both asian females and males.<br/><br/>On another note, thank you for commenting on this post or I would have never found it. @jjiang1989 But why isn’t there the equivalent number of operations (or any that I’ve heard of) by caucasians to widen ones nose, or to make ones eyes more slanty or requests by younger people to get collagen injections to make their face appear rounder? Asians do not have those features naturally because, well we’re asian. Tyra Banks has said in public that straightening and lightening her hair essentially made her more marketable as a black women to the white American public. It’s something she felt she had to do to succeed.

Let’s not discount Akrypti’s message by using the whole exotic and rare argument. There is a clear and distinct, almost rampant rejection of natural Asian beauty and attractiveness by both asian females and males.

On another note, thank you for commenting on this post or I would have never found it.

]]> By: jjiang1989 http://www.8asians.com/2007/04/13/when-white-standards-are-still-the-measure-of-asian-beauty/comment-page-1/#comment-151204 jjiang1989 Sun, 15 May 2011 15:21:31 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/2007/04/13/when-white-standards-are-still-the-measure-of-asian-beauty/#comment-151204 that hit the nail right on the head. one thing i think also contributes to wanting "pale skin, big eyes, tall nose, etc" is that there aren't many asians who have that naturally. people always want what they don't have. why to caucasians love tanning so much (even though, SKIN CANCER much?) and why do black people like long straight hair? (okay, that's just the black girls I know) i think people just want what is rare. the grass is greener and all that. that hit the nail right on the head.

one thing i think also contributes to wanting “pale skin, big eyes, tall nose, etc” is that there aren’t many asians who have that naturally. people always want what they don’t have.

why to caucasians love tanning so much (even though, SKIN CANCER much?) and why do black people like long straight hair? (okay, that’s just the black girls I know)

i think people just want what is rare. the grass is greener and all that.

]]> By: Changing Faces: The Westernization of Asian Beauty « undergroundallure http://www.8asians.com/2007/04/13/when-white-standards-are-still-the-measure-of-asian-beauty/comment-page-1/#comment-150241 Changing Faces: The Westernization of Asian Beauty « undergroundallure Tue, 26 Apr 2011 23:49:43 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/2007/04/13/when-white-standards-are-still-the-measure-of-asian-beauty/#comment-150241 [...] heard this opinion expressed on English forums for Asian fashion, Asian American blogs and even the Tyra Banks Show.  Buying into this assumption, I dismissed the thought of wearing [...] [...] heard this opinion expressed on English forums for Asian fashion, Asian American blogs and even the Tyra Banks Show.  Buying into this assumption, I dismissed the thought of wearing [...]

]]> By: Should This Blonde-Haired, Blue-Eyed Girl Have Won a Miss India Pagent? | Discrimination | 8Asians.com http://www.8asians.com/2007/04/13/when-white-standards-are-still-the-measure-of-asian-beauty/comment-page-1/#comment-142684 Should This Blonde-Haired, Blue-Eyed Girl Have Won a Miss India Pagent? | Discrimination | 8Asians.com Thu, 14 Oct 2010 02:44:22 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/2007/04/13/when-white-standards-are-still-the-measure-of-asian-beauty/#comment-142684 [...] to enter the Miss IndiaNZ project? And if so, what is the message it says to us Asian Americans, when a white-looking girl wins a pageant for “Asian beauty?” Discuss in our [...] [...] to enter the Miss IndiaNZ project? And if so, what is the message it says to us Asian Americans, when a white-looking girl wins a pageant for “Asian beauty?” Discuss in our [...]

]]> By: personwhoknosalot http://www.8asians.com/2007/04/13/when-white-standards-are-still-the-measure-of-asian-beauty/comment-page-1/#comment-128729 personwhoknosalot Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:58:17 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/2007/04/13/when-white-standards-are-still-the-measure-of-asian-beauty/#comment-128729 actuallu anime does look like japanese cuz they do not have big noses. n the eyes how many big eyed asians have you seen? becuz theres loads. like mine are round n big. <br>n pale skin actually asians do have pale skin maybe some don't but some countries mostly have it ones tht have the sameish tint like caucasian. (why do u use western not eoropean or caucasian??)<br>but i have seen stupid people with nice pretty single lids getting doubles n these can look disgusting like dierhia but some suit it n some already have it. it might not be big n stuff but hey asians have the most eye sizes in their race. but when mongolia went to make the biggest empire in the world spanning from all of eastern eorope n to korea obviously all races exept asians had double eyelids n stuff but tht didn't put off the mongols. becuz not only the eoros they went to conquer had it. well just saying. n it says most of the asian countries why they like pale ness was 9now am saying india n stuff the whole asia) was becuz of light skinned rulers like mongols or mughuls as they misprounced n then the eoropean one. actuallu anime does look like japanese cuz they do not have big noses. n the eyes how many big eyed asians have you seen? becuz theres loads. like mine are round n big.
n pale skin actually asians do have pale skin maybe some don't but some countries mostly have it ones tht have the sameish tint like caucasian. (why do u use western not eoropean or caucasian??)
but i have seen stupid people with nice pretty single lids getting doubles n these can look disgusting like dierhia but some suit it n some already have it. it might not be big n stuff but hey asians have the most eye sizes in their race. but when mongolia went to make the biggest empire in the world spanning from all of eastern eorope n to korea obviously all races exept asians had double eyelids n stuff but tht didn't put off the mongols. becuz not only the eoros they went to conquer had it. well just saying. n it says most of the asian countries why they like pale ness was 9now am saying india n stuff the whole asia) was becuz of light skinned rulers like mongols or mughuls as they misprounced n then the eoropean one.

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